[QueenofSmirks]

Originally Posted by The_Lady_Snow

...My frustration comes from the ridiculous excuses for not being up to date when it comes to what is going on in your state.

Why are you frustrated about what someone else knows or doesn't know that lives in a state you don't live in? It's their life; they have different priorities than you do. Why does that frustrate you? Do you believe everyone should have the same priorties as yours and think the same way you do and have your same opinions?

Originally Posted by The_Lady_Snow

...So when I say Arizona is a racist state, I can, I have family there, I could share some stories (why though they fall on deaf ears) now, do I think every single person is?

Well, I think that's where some of the miscommunication is then... because when you say "Arizona" is a racist state, you do imply that it is all citizens of Arizona that are racist, as so many others in this thread have also done. By not using the term "most" or "some" or just "voters who voted in Jan Brewer & Co", you do imply "all".

Originally Posted by The_Lady_Snow

...No, but the ones who aren't and stay silent

Ok,sure, but it's been said over and over that some of the posters voted AGAINST, so they weren't "silent", they just weren't part of the majority voters.

Originally Posted by The_Lady_Snow

....and use colorfol racial descriptors ...

I understand you are upset by this and I'm not going to try to argue against that. My mother is Caucasian, my father is Hispanic; maybe that doesn't qualify me to have an opinion, but my Hispanic side wasn't offended by the words "that look", because taken in context, I completely understood what was being said, and it was NOT an attempt to be hateful or discriminatory or racist. The very discussion we are having is about racial profiling which does use a "look" to determine who falls under its grasp.

Originally Posted by The_Lady_Snow

...well then it's no different than standing by, letting a kid get hit by a car. Why should you help, not your kid, not your car, so *shrug*

It absolutely IS different, because this analogy implies that people sat by and didn't vote and let Jan Brewer get into office. That isn't the case for some of the posters in this thread. They DID vote, they didn't however win the majority vote!